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All the Leaves Are Gone
Foster, Supposed
All the Leaves Are Gone
Genres: Alternative Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock
 
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Last spring, you may have gotten a dose of opera school dropout Josephine Foster?s startling mixture of avant arrangements & acoustic mountain folk as half of the spare, twisted-up Appalachian duo Born Heller. To many,...  more »

     
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All Artists: Foster, Supposed
Title: All the Leaves Are Gone
Members Wishing: 3
Total Copies: 0
Label: Locust
Release Date: 10/5/2004
Genres: Alternative Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock
Styles: Contemporary Folk, Folk Rock
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 656605706221

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Last spring, you may have gotten a dose of opera school dropout Josephine Foster?s startling mixture of avant arrangements & acoustic mountain folk as half of the spare, twisted-up Appalachian duo Born Heller. To many, the effect of her voice has been nothing short of chilling since the duo?s Locust debut. After a 180° shift in style, Josephine Foster & The Supposed offer up a 12-cut blow out that?s exuberant and hard-hitting. On All The Leaves Are Gone, Foster embraces her rock?n?roll heart and intuitively summons up the mojo of legendary songstress Patti Smith as she rides the crest of a fluid, angular rhythm section that?s as triumphant as the sound of classic Television and trebly west coast psychedelia from decades gone by. Lyrically, stylistically and musically, this is a fearless, soon to be classic post-punk rock?n?roll record that delivers the goods from start to finish. All The Leaves Are Gone was originally dreamed up as a rock opera. Even enfant terrible Harmony Korine (Kids, Gummo) has expressed interest in adapting it to film. But before visions of Jesus Christ Superstar start dancing in your head, play this record ? and you?ll know there is something happening here that?s unlike anything else you?ve ever heard.

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Off kilter, discordant, contemporary...and utterly original.
Brit Bunkley | New Zealand | 01/25/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)

"This album is a wonderfully addition to the current underground weird folk movement. (This neo-psychedelic phenomenon includes the acoustic T. Rex stylisms of Devendra Banhart, the Incredible String Band meets Jean Ritchie approach of Joanna Newsom, and the post modern Beach Boys-on-far-too-many-acid-trips technique of the Animal Collective.) In this case, the folk is... mostly folk-rock.



The front cover of "All the Leaves Are Gone" is a reasonable pastiche of late 60's psychedelia; it could easily pass for a Fillmore West poster from 1969. However the style of the lead singer Josephine Foster's operatic voice not only seems to emerge from the West Coast late sixties; it is far more eclectic. At times the vocals and song arrangements resemble the 1979 folkish post punk of the Raincoats. Other times Foster's voice could pass for Joan Baez. References to the 1969 period Renaissance, It's a Beautiful Day and the "Unhalbricking" era Fairport Convention would also be accurate, but in all, the music is also off kilter, discordant, contemporary...and utterly original.





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